24 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 2

Last week-end four Scottish Labour Members (Messrs. Wheatley, Maxton, Kirkwood

and the Rev. Campbell Stephen) visited the Ruhr. They have now issued a " report " Of what they did and whom they saw. They were 'extremely surprised at the standard of living enjoyed by the Ruhr miners, which they found consider- ably above that of the Scottish. They could discover no explanation for this. They indulged in a quotation of somebody's" rather cheap witticism on reparations that " the German capitalists had fooled their workers into believing that they could not pay, and the French capitalists had fooled their workers into believing they could make the Germans pay."